Baton Music

'Fantasia on Christmas Carols' is a 1912 work for Baritone, Chorus, and Orchestra by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. It was first performed at the 1912 'Three Choirs Festival' at Hereford...

'Fantasia on Christmas Carols' is a 1912 work for Baritone, Chorus, and Orchestra by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. It was first performed at the 1912 'Three Choirs Festival' at Hereford...

Sigurd Jorsalfar is an orchestral suite by Edvard Grieg, celebrating King Sigurd I of Norway compiled in 1872 from incidental music to a play by Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson. Also available as seperate edi...

Russian composer Anton Arensky (1861-1906) composed his ballet Nuits d'Egypte, based on Théophile Gautier's novella 'Une nuit de Cléopatre', in 1900. The ballet was programmed by Serge Diaghilev at hi...

Just seeing its title, the Tipsy Song may not be immediately familiar. But hearing just one bar of it, it's the Annen-Polka with a vocal part in which a proper Victorian-era lady finds herself slightl...

In 1896 Edward Elgar submitted sketches for two new works to mark Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. One work was 'The Banner of St George', the other was the 'Imperial March'. Both captured the mood o...

In 1896 Edward Elgar submitted sketches for two new works to mark Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. One work was 'The Banner of St George', the other was the 'Imperial March'. Both captured the mood o...

Although Italian born Guglielmo Cottrau (1797-1847) had a political career, he preferred the arts, music, literature and journalism. Around 1825 he began his collaboration with Federico Girard to publ...

Although Italian born Guglielmo Cottrau (1797-1847) had a political career, he preferred the arts, music, literature and journalism. Around 1825 he began his collaboration with Federico Girard to publ...

The 'Kaisermarsch' (Imperial March) is a patriotic march composed by Richard Wagner in 1871 in order to exalt the foundation of the German Empire after the victorious Franco-Prussian War. The 'Kaiserm...

The 'Kaisermarsch' (Imperial March) is a patriotic march composed by Richard Wagner in 1871 in order to exalt the foundation of the German Empire after the victorious Franco-Prussian War. The 'Kaiserm...

Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga (1806 -1826) was a Spanish Basque composer. He was nicknamed 'the Spanish Mozart' after he died, because, like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was both a child prodigy and an ac...

Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga (1806 -1826) was a Spanish Basque composer. He was nicknamed 'the Spanish Mozart' after he died, because, like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was both a child prodigy and an ac...

Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (1837- 1910) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor known today primarily for his work promoting musical nationalism and his encouragement of more famous Russian com...

Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (1837- 1910) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor known today primarily for his work promoting musical nationalism and his encouragement of more famous Russian com...

Joseph Haydn's (1732-1809) last solo concerto was composed to help with an experiment: in an effort to break through the trumpet's limitations Anton Weidinger - a trumpeter of the Vienna Court Orchest...

For the 1809 premiere of Schiller's translation of the famous story of 'Turandot', Carl Maria von Weber wrote an overture and six related pieces as incidental music with a unifying theme based on the...

For the 1809 premiere of Schiller's translation of the famous story of 'Turandot', Carl Maria von Weber wrote an overture and six related pieces as incidental music with a unifying theme based on the...

Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859 - 1935) was a Russian composer, conductor and teacher. His works include operas, orchestral music, chamber music and a large number of songs. His style is s...

Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859 - 1935) was a Russian composer, conductor and teacher. His works include operas, orchestral music, chamber music and a large number of songs. His style is s...

La Damnation de Faust was in the beginning a kind of oratorio, although Hector Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) called it himself a concert-opera. To place the Hungarian March in the piece, Hector Berlioz s...

Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's, mazurka's and marsches to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. The Egyptischer Marsch Opus 335 is a beautiful...

Entry March of the Boyars, composed in 1895 by the Norwegian composer Johan Halvorsen, has been a popular orchestral favorite ever since and one of the best-known examples of Scandinavian orchestral m...